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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 16, 2006 17:15:51 GMT
where they have planted bulbs.
I only had 4 packets remaining today and I was determined to get them in - tried in 12 places in total and 8 already had bulbs in them and I half dug them out.
Well as usual I have just stuck them back in although a few have been sliced in half and all of them have at least 5cm growth of them underground at the moment. I counted 10 daffs that are about 4 cm above the ground.....
I am assuming that I will lose a few - I haven't even planted any tulips this year - well only wild tulips which I love.
I have planted some in pots Plocket - just so that I can be proud of a few - Dutchy and I really do have problems in that area.
I just wish that I could remember where I had planted them all in the first place, - it isn't as though I have a very big garden......
Rosefriend
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Post by andy on Nov 16, 2006 17:20:47 GMT
Yep  .....i built my rockery at home last spring and i....ahem "thinned out some bulbs from work" !!! But i only labled half of them for some reason. Went to plant some tulips and iris this year and found all the bulbs So this year, i'll have tulips coming up among the chinadoxia, daffs among the crocus and gawd knows what else. I'm pretty fussy when it comes to having bulbs. I like their little clumps and none should mingle with others.... Oh well, it'll certainly be colourful  |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 16, 2006 17:27:27 GMT
I don't usually lose my bulbs because most of them are in pots - I have clay soil which they don't particularly like. I do have to label the pots carefully though so I don't try and plant other things in them! And because my garden is little it's not difficult to remember roughly where the snowdrops and hair alliums are.
Good luck with all your bulbs Rosefriend - it will be interesting to see how ours fare this winter bearing in mind -14 has already been forecast for February/March - a temperature we are not used to!
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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 16, 2006 17:38:52 GMT
Well Plocket if the UK gets minus 14 deg C, I would assume that you are going to get it from our area and we will get it from Scandinavia and Russia.
However do you realise that we could well end up with minus 20 - 25 deg C.
It was probably a waste of time planting the bulbs in the first place.......
Rosefriend
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Post by Plocket on Nov 16, 2006 17:50:44 GMT
Oh don't say that Rosefriend - it's worth giving the bulbs a go particularly when the weather forecasters have been known to get it wrong!!! I can't imagine what -14 feels like, let alone -25 - get your thermals ordered NOW!!!
Px
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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 16, 2006 18:46:26 GMT
Actually minus 20 isn't as cold as you would think because it is a dry cold. As long as you have a scarf and gloves and watch your ears - they can get frost bite fairly easily then there is no problem.
With those temperatures, the sky is blue, marvellous clear air and it is lovely to go for long walks in the woods...
Just one thing that you must not do and that it to think of what may not have survived the temperatures in your garden........
Rosefriend
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Post by Plocket on Nov 16, 2006 18:54:26 GMT
I'm already worrying about what might not survive -14, and you have to worry about far worse than that!!!
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Nov 16, 2006 18:59:53 GMT
I always plant a small clump of violas over where I've planted bulbs ;D<IknowwhatI'mdoingsometimessmiley>!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2006 9:13:24 GMT
Yes Rosefriend I'm like you I forget where most, but not all of my bulbs are too. Like Plocket I do grow quite a lot in pots.  We lived in Germany from 1986 to 1992, I remember standing at the school bus stop with my daughter and dog when the temperature was -14c the overnight low had been down to about -30c  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 17, 2006 13:20:16 GMT
Yes Rita - it can get a bit chilly here - I once had to go 6km's on my bike at minus 19 C - I couldn't feel my legs for ages afterwards and the pain when the feeling came back...............
I didn't even own a pair of socks until I came to this country - I have a draw full now............
I am actually thinking of putting some kind of marker in where my bulbs are - if it stops me digging them up every year, it would be worth the effort.
Rosefriend
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Post by Jonah on Nov 17, 2006 20:43:34 GMT
I sort of remember, but when it comes to taking tulips out, I'm always worried about damaging the plants they are between or under. I always leave a few behind, I found big, blousy red ones coming up with my spring green etc. I did similar when I tried to move my daffs around, I'm getting a right old mish mash. I've given up. |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Nov 18, 2006 7:59:34 GMT
Yes Rosefriend me too - so sad when I slice one in half which I dig  BUT - this year I have stuck little white labels in the ground with their names on BUT - they looked an eyesore so have taken them out and made a map It is now in my Garden Folder so it wont get lost So far have planted some bulbs kindly given to me by Dutchy when we met plus Angelique Tulips bulbs and 40 Narcissi |
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.....i built my rockery at home last spring and i....ahem "thinned out some bulbs from work" !!! But i only labled half of them for some reason.
